• Hot Off The Presses - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Tony Snow Opens A Can Of Grammatical Whoop-Ass

    December 19, 2006 - By 

    KRT Wire | 12/19/2006 | White House retreats from Iraq question WASHINGTON – The White House refused Monday to characterize how the Iraq war is going as Americans' approval rating of President Bush's strategy hit a new low. "I'm not playing the game anymore," White House spokesman Tony Snow said when asked about fears the U.S. is not winning in Iraq. Snow's tactical retreat came amid questions from reporters who wanted White House reaction to former Secretary of State Colin Powell's assessment that the situation in Iraq is "grave and deteriorating," and "nothing seems to be improving." "You're trying to…

  • Politics, Schmolitics - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Guarded optimism on Sen. Johnson (D-SD)

    December 19, 2006 - By 

    An Update on Senator Johnson – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog From my conversations with the doctors and based on the progress he has been making, I feel very confident that he is going to be getting back to work sooner rather than later.  I've been watching this story out of the corner of my eye since it first broke – didn't want to jinx myself by blathering on without knowing too much. How unbloggerlike of me. Anyway, I hope Sen. Johnson continues to make progress. It's ironic that for the moment, the hopes of progressives…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Work Hard? Or Hardly Working?

    December 15, 2006 - By 

    One Utah » Blog Archive » It’s Hard Work, Working Hard… President Bush, according to Newsweek, is going to take longer than expected to get up to speed on the war in Iraq. Briefing the president has been limited to short 45-minute sessions that won’t “overload the president’s schedule,” starting with “a basic level of strategy” and gradually introducing him to various aspects of Iraq policy. My mom and dad had a long-standing joke between them; when Pop would return home, Mom would gauge how tired he was by it. She'd ask "Wuhk hahd, or hahdly wuhkin'?" It was a…

  • Radio - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Its beginning to look a lot like public radio at WBEZ

    December 14, 2006 - By 

    Its beginning to look a lot like public radio at WBEZ | Chicago Tribune So WBEZ had music in its sights for much of the year, but in the end, it couldn't pull the trigger. The Chicago public radio station (FM 91.5) has posted its new, news-and-talk schedule, and the surprise is that so much music survives, although very little of it is jazz. It was the threatened death of WBEZ's voluminous jazz programming that caused so much (well-mannered) furor when the plans were announced earlier this year. Not from me, I was totally ecstatic when I heard WBEZ was…